The obligatory About me section, that’s actually about you.
Every good author has an about me section; I’m looking to expand that to a wider audience of mediocre authors, subpar blogs, or even spirited failures by including an “About Me” section for mine. Join me, and together we can collectively lower the bar on writing for the internet. Make mediocrity great again! It’s a slogan so relatable yet confusing in its very essence that the mind recoils not in horror but a feeling of awkward discomfort bordering on shame.
Anyway, my name is Addison. I could be called pantaloons the conqueror for all the relevance in regards to what I’m offering, but you have taken the time to read this, so I feel I should at least pay you the courtesy of my name.
This is generally the point where people go on about where they are from and the little mundane details of their life that are supposed to make them more relatable and for you to trust them, but honestly, that’s not what’s going to happen here. It’s not relevant to what I want to accomplish or what I do, and you don’t need to know the dressings of my life to get to know me. That will become apparent from everything on here; you won’t be able to not get a feel for who I am. It’s not necessary, but it’s a byproduct of the information, as people tend to write what they know, and I am no exception there; make of that what you will.
See, people include about me sections to make themselves relatable in order to establish trust, but for what I’m doing, I don’t want you to trust me. I want you to doubt me a little; you shouldn’t trust me innately. I do have your best interest in mind and want to entertain and inspire but you need to come to that conclusion yourself. It’s part of the process, and I seek to promote critical thinking along with imagination. See “About me” aren’t about me, it’s about selling me to you, the reader, and I don’t want to do that. If you are into what I create fantastic, but I’d prefer it to be because of the content and not the person it sprung from. I’m not really interested in selling myself to you as a brand; that is just a necessary evil to some extent.
But if it helps in some manner to relate on the humanist level, my habitat is urban, I could charitably be called a adequate writer and I have a couple of cats who between the two of them have a total of eight paws, three ears, and at least four to five times the legal amount of cute that felines are allowed to lawfully possess (but such is the mentality of all pet owners).
I would start an armed multi-national conflict over them should push come to shove. I hope it won’t come to that, but stranger things have happened. I’d say we live in strange times but they aren’t necessarily andy stranger than any other point, we just happen to exist in an age of greater connection and less understanding.
That’s the core of the about me section as far as personal details go. As you sojourn through the Musings, you will learn the strange type of loveable bastard I am.
=The Morris Musing Philosophy=
If you wish to know some of the reasons behind why I’m doing this beyond the mission statement, then lets slither into why I’m doing all of this. There are a plethora of reasons I created this amalgamation of thought and creative putty. Now, to keep myself from rambling on, and that is not an insignificant feat in itself, I will break into a couple of brief key points regarding the philosophy, for that is all one truly needs to know. For it is both the personal drive and the mission statement. I have included a summary of my personal creed and beliefs regarding creation as well, for it helps give some context to the unusual, somewhat chaotic, and less orthodox way I do things.
Everyone is driven by a couple of key points towards their personal philosophy. I am a convoluted, complex, and rather strange person (or so I’ve been told ad nauseam) guided by an almost insultingly simple core principle and reason for existing. I simply wish to mitigate as much suffering as I can in this life. Elleviate it wherever I can by providing relief in ways that I am capable of. There’s no shortage of if, and I want nothing more than to provide a bit of a bulwark against the ineffable and inevitable tide of suffering that we will all face at one point or another. My primary purpose is a creator and connector, and I’ve decided to put those to use to make creations to provide escapiasm, teach new understandings or inspire others. I wish to be a Muse, hence the musings. I also wish to teach people better communication and understanding of the world but that’s a whole other trench and I promised not to ramble so we shall leave that in the abyss for now. Suffice to say, my motivations are of a more genuine nature than a lot of what you find on the internet these days. I don’t use social media as it’s so fake it sickens me, and that doesn’t align with me in the slightest.
I’m that odd person who believes more in intrinsic value than exchange value, and if you don’t understand what that means, stay sweet, summer child. That being said, my motivations are primarily creative or passion driven, but they also have a lucrative element to them as well. It’s simply not the main motivation for what I do; I create because I can not, because I must to pay the rent. Beans can feed the body, art can feed the soul. I still, however, need the beans to make the art.
Congrats on reading this far. I’m impressed by your attention span and literacy. I really wish that was a joke. Anyway, I truly hope you find some merit in what I created. If not, then I hope you take some enjoyment watching a crazy man on the internet spiral into madness and jackassery. Either one is good as far as I’m concerned. As long as you’re smiling while it happens, that is enough I suceeded and the world has a modicum of less suffering in it.
Cheers,
Addison
=-Personal Creed-=
In my view, creativity is a human endeavor, and to that end, everything I created is done by my hand (unless otherwise explicitly stated). This is explained in the Methods & The Musings section, for those so inclined. I follow a simple principle and personal rule for all my projects and expressions. Do unto others, and create something I would enjoy or value. With that in mind, I follow a somewhat less trodden path compared to what a lot of other creators tend to do these days. Expression and freedom are priority elements for my personal philosophy, and I chose to live that. It’s not right or wrong, it’s just mine.
I don’t create for everyone or take the path of optimal profit; that’s on me, and I acknowledge it. If I fail, I fail, that’s on me for trying to be genuine and human in this era of short attention spans and relentless content. My creations, including this website, are based around “If the roles were reversed, would I enjoy this or find some value in it?” Where others rage bait, I rage deviate. I want to make things better for others, not add to the problems and miseries of the insurmountable mire of modern media.
I don’t use AI for my creations, and I try to keep ads excticnt or to an absolute minimum. Not out of some deep sense of moral outrage or political stance, but simply driven by the fact that I find them both utterly devoid of intrinsic value the vast majority of the time. They have their places and uses; they aren’t here or now.
Entering a website and being assailed by ads on every square pixel unlocks a type of rage our ancestors couldn’t even fathom. I’m confident it would have spawned some amazing poetry, but that would have been the only positive result. Indignant rage can be quite the motivator. I don’t use ads on this website because excessive ads piss me off, and I like to imagine I have a connection to other people, relative enough to understand many others may feel the same way. There’s a special brand of rage that can only be dredged up by an excessive amount of pop-ups and multicolored slop trying to get your clicks or part you from currency. It perturbs me, and I don’t wish to subject another living creature to such horrors without undue reason. I’ll make up the difference another way that doesn’t involve being an asshole to those considerate enough to visit. That said, there are other ways to support me should you so choose.
I don’t use AI (LLM) to create because it doesn’t align with my personal philosophy as a creator. The process is part of that for me. I could use AI, it’s not hard, and I’m no Luddite when it comes to tech. It’s an active personal choice regarding what I consider valuable, and I value personal growth, which comes along with manual creation. It’s also sort of boring; the process is half the fun when it comes to creation.
As far as charging for that sort of thing, I feel human effort is the primary driver of value when it comes to creation. The process and ingenuity are what you really pay for; anybody can prompt a machine. It’s not difficult and takes no time, so it should be valued appropriately. AI is fine for personal enjoyment or administrative tasks, but I don’t feel right charging for something spawned by it parading as human-crafted art, so I don’t. On the very rare occasion I would ever create something using soley AI (llm) then I would not charge for it, and be very upfront about its use.
Lastly, I’m not a fan of social media; therefore, I keep a pretty tight online presence, and by that I mean nonexistent. If you see my work on anything outside of the select few locations (Vocal, Royal Road, AO3, and YouTube) then it’s not officially supported or done by me.